Human Rights
Monday, March 24, 2014 - 07:42
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki personally ordered the arrest of a presidential guard said to have shot dead an Iraqi journalist after a quarrel.
Monday, March 24, 2014 - 07:33
As Syria enters its fourth year of conflict, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday on the “next steps” for US policy after the failure of the Geneva talks.
Monday, March 24, 2014 - 07:23
“This is a terrorist organisation,” Erdogan said in reference to Hizmet, which has a network of supporters in the police and judiciary that the prime minister describes as an anti-democratic ‘parallel state’.
Monday, March 24, 2014 - 00:00
"With regards to the violation of human rights, yes, there have been excesses by police, but state prosecutors are investigating this", said Luisa Ortega, the top state prosecutor.
Monday, March 24, 2014 - 00:00
On Friday afternoon, the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court ruled that the Prosecutor's Office and the Judicial Investigation Police broke the law when they traced a journalist's phone calls.
Monday, March 24, 2014 - 00:00
Dominican immigration officers have barred a woman of Haitian descent who's fighting for Dominican citizenship from flying to the U.S. to meet with a human rights body.
Friday, March 21, 2014 - 14:21
This week Mexico's national security commissioner resigned, U.S. Southern Command deployed more ships to help Honduras' Navy interdict drugs and Colombian security forces were deployed to the country's primary cocaine port, where neo-paramilitary groups are terrorizing residents. Here's a roundup of these stories and other highlights from around the region over the past week.
Friday, March 21, 2014 - 08:07
Turkey's courts have blocked access to Twitter days before elections as Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan battles a corruption scandal that has seen social media platforms awash with alleged evidence of government wrongdoing.
Friday, March 21, 2014 - 00:00
Outside the shacks, a few men loiter, waiting and smoking; on the other side of the doors, women engage in the dangerous business of selling sex for money.
Friday, March 21, 2014 - 00:00
EVERY year Brazil's police are responsible for at least 2,000 deaths. The victims are generally recorded as having been "killed while resisting arrest"